becare

verb

becare

verb

Etymology From Middle English bicaren. Equivalent to be- + care.

1

To care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.

  • Counselors becare you. They give you clothes and candy. Joan becares me, Marilyn loves me. My parents don't becare me, they're not counselors."1968, Bruno Bettelheim, Love is not enough:
  • Some little patients in the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, in comparing their counselors with their parents, stated that parents love, but counselors "becare."1971, Benjamin B. Wolman, Manual of child psychopathology:
1 more example
  • As is well known, before mechanized agriculture, maize plants, like all New World crops, such as squash or beans, had to be individually hand-planted, becared, consciously selected, and harvested, with Old World type mass sowing, [...]2006, John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz, Histories of Maize:

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